Obviously, after watching it go on amongst multiple participants for a couple of
years, "we" can't; hey, we're just like everyone else :-) who can't debate all
that well. "Proof" the economy is much too important to be left to economists.
Ian
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He could be playing what Thomas Ferguson calls 'the investment theory of
politics and party competition'; tiny sacrifice now big gains down the road.
Although he's kind of old ain't he?
Ian
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Full article at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,430264,00.html
Opening gambit without strategy
Special report: globalisation
Larry Elliott in Davos
Monday January 29, 2001
First, the good news. Everybody in Davos knows that there is a problem with
globalisation. Things
Yoshie wrote: We need to criticize Bush's anti-abortion policy, but we also have
to
point out that supporters for "international family planning
organizations" include an unsavory bunch of people who are obsessed
with "overpopulation."
When we compare Kerala the rest of India, it's clear that
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,429512,00.html
Bankers slam UK euro policy
Special report: economic and monetary union
Larry Elliott in Davos
Saturday January 27, 2001
The president of the Bundesbank, Ernst Welteke, raised the temperature yesterday
in the debate over
So, "they" can gamble away 3 trillion, but by golly, the South has got to pay
those debts!!!
full article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/28/business/28WATC.html
January 28, 2001
Market Watch: Eroding Paper Gains May Undo a Remarkable Resiliency
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Stock market investors
He's a Randite. He's always been a Randite. Conditional on the
government's size being fixed, he's in favor of budget surpluses. But
give him an opening where he thinks there's an opportunity to shrink
the government permanently, and he'll go for it.
And he is really, really scared
http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010212c=1s=wasserman
Jeff B
I'm not sure I follow your question. There's nothing "post-Westphalian"
about elite pessimism becoming instantiated in the military policies of
states. Pessimism about the motives of other states in an international
system in which states must provide for their own security is the
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/26/business/26ACCO.html?pagewanted=all
January 26, 2001
Fewer Borders for Global Accounting
By FLOYD NORRIS
A new International Accounting Standards Board was appointed yesterday, with a
mission of producing coordinated accounting standards within a few years.
This is bullshit. The reason that national union membership is shrinking is
because the labor force is being recomposed with contingent work - temp
jobs, part-time jobs, adjunct workers - and the AFL-CIO refuses to fight
for contingent workers or to challenge the legislation denying contingent
full article at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2001-01/taboo270101.shtml
Germany breaks taboo to defuse its pensions timebomb
By Imre Karacs in Berlin
27 January 2001
A much-trimmed blueprint for the overhaul of Germany's stretched state pension
system was passed by the
Maxster,
Does AG's claim of:
"In contrast, the experience of the past five to seven years has been truly
without recent precedent. The doubling of the growth rate of output per hour has
caused individuals' real taxable income to grow nearly 2-1/2 times as fast as it
did over the preceding ten
. . .
jibe with M B's latest S of WA? If not where's AG getting his data from?
[sorry, haven't got my copy of it yet]
mbs: Where are saying there is a contradiction?
Remember, taxable income is a much narrower
category than anything in GDP.
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I can't make out your
Apropos the conversation on the uselessness of "globalization" and the Bush
Admin. obsession with deepening the militarization of space-time. So while we
have governments, are we heading into a post-Westphalian political ecology of
conflict via elite pessimism becoming ever more instantiated in
[The ruler of Qatar is Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani. In theory his power is
absolute, but he consults with the Cabinet, other members of the ruling Al-Thani
family, representatives of the larger merchant families and with the Advisory
Council whose members he appoints. The Council comments
Some Seattleites are thinking about some way of shaming Boeing and the
Machinists on this as they just got a 6billion $$ contract to build stuff that
will lead eventuallyto the Death Star. In fact some artists are toying with
a Death Star with Boeing's logo tacked on it. It's a f*g
the fundamental flaws of the TRW
discrimination system. These practices violated canonical principles of
objective, verifiable scientific methods and constituted a fraud against the
Government.
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[Yet more on the phlogiston that is "the free market"]
http://www.iht.com/articles/8510.html
As Asian Reforms Go Into Eclipse, Growth Outlook Darkens
Michael Richardson International Herald Tribune Wednesday, January 24, 2001
SINGAPORE: The signs are surfacing across Asia.
.
In South Korea,
The Globe and Mail January
22, 2001
U.S. touts California-style power plan
By Barrie McKenna
SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. government is pushing California-
style power deregulation on the rest of the world even as the state's
Hats off to you and your fellow mischief makers Gene! ACORN has galvanized
Seattle on this issue big time in the past 2 weeks
Ian
[it was this kind of activity that "The Matrix" was mythologizing to
space-time writ large...it's stuff like this that makes techno-libertarians
so giddy about "the new economy"]
full article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/18/science/18LIGH.html
January 18, 2001 Single-Page Format
, as I assume we will has the recession unfolds.
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
http://www.iht.com/articles/7768.html
The Unpredictable Economy: Experts Missed Last 9 Recessions
Steven Pearlstein Washington Post Service Wednesday, January 17, 2001
WASHINGTON In presenting his annual
I just received a long analysis of the upcoming FTAA talks by Maude Barlow
of the Council of Canadians. If any one wants a copy feel free to reply off
list.
Ian
[this is the list from Battelle's website; they are the contractors, along
with Bechtel and the Midwest Research Institute, that run the National
Renewable Energy Lab for the US Gov. in Colorado... http://www.nrel.gov ]
Top Ten Energy Innovations for 2010
2000 Press Release
The top 10 most
full article at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/argument/Leading_articles/2001-01/leaderb19010
1.shtml
Power cuts in California hold a green message
19 January 2001
It has come to something when the lights go out in California, the richest
and most populous state of the richest nation in the
full article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/16/world/16PREX.html?pagewanted=all
The Mexican peso crisis crept up unnoticed here, and in 1997 and 1998, the
C.I.A. and the State Department's economics officers also failed to detect
early signs of the currency crisis in Asia that ultimately
Because it's important to show that what humans can do, humans can
also undo - that the "laws" of capitalism are the result of a social
system and not more-or-less immutable physical forces. The ruling
class likes to talk about the inevitability of globalization - like
Bill Clinton, who
full article at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/argument/Leading_articles/2001-01/leaderb16010
1.shtml
Why should taxpayers subsidise shareholders?
16 January 2001
Who will pay for Railtrack's failures? Now that the cost of the
post-Hatfield compensation and repairs to the railway
http://www.iht.com/articles/7768.html
The Unpredictable Economy: Experts Missed Last 9 Recessions
Steven Pearlstein Washington Post Service Wednesday, January 17, 2001
WASHINGTON In presenting his annual economic outlook last Thursday, the
chairman of President Bill Clinton's Council of
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
So when will the campus shutdowns
begin in earnest :-)?
My resident expert on student activism tells me that the kids are "in
hiatus," but that things will pick up soon.
Trying to ameliorate the keg party deficit?
Speaking of which, s
Since, perhaps not everyone has seen the whole SFBG interview with Doug:
http://www.sfbg.com/News/35/15/15bgiv.html
DH: I guess one of the more depressing aspects of political life in the last
20 years has been this absolute sense of resignation on the part of so much
of the left. But it seems
Back in the mid 90's UPS threatened the Teamsters with a reorg so as to be
classified as an Airline like FedEx in order to break the union; they
basically told the Teamsters "go organize FedEx or we'll do it." This was
while they were in court trying to have FedEx' status changed so that those
of
[you knew this but hey, let's spread the news.:-)]
[full article]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,421743,00.html
A dominant world view coalescing around the Bush administration is that the
US is the true leader of the civilised world, with a historic duty to
promote the liberal
Call these guys http://www.cepr.net
Ian
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can anyone with a better
thank you.
ian
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Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
You wrote:
Have you read Jim
If you don't know the stats, then how do you know it's drivel? Looks
like most of the claims in the piece are defensible.
A recent NBER working paper http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8058
finds very little effect of trade on national wage structures; what
really matters are domestic
Michael,
These folks can tell you: http://www.svtc.org/
Ian
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Subject: [PEN-L:6877] semiconductor production
Does
J. W. Mason
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
(413) 253-5817
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You wrote:
Have you read Jim
Crotty's article, "Owner-Management Conflict and Financial Theories of
Investment Instability"?
Gotta journal cite for it?
Ian
http://www.envirobank.org/
It is clear that the European banking community is far ahead of the US when
it comes to the concept of investment in green assets...Representing a
perspective from the United States, Helen Sahi of FleetBoston Financial
presented a discussion related to image risk
[this is big news...]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2001-01/bse110101.shtml
Meat-loving Germany gets Green minister to oversee farm revolution
BSE crisis: Schroder reshuffle aims to restore consumer confidence in wake
of scares over mad cow disease and collapsing beef sales
By
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0109-04.htm
Published on Tuesday, January 9, 2001
Distributed by Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services
Clinton's Economic Legacy
by Mark Weisbrot
America' 42nd President, William Jefferson Clinton, is likely to be
remembered for the longest- running business
Barnet Wagman wrote:
Once current income starts whirling around in the speculative
sector, it can stay there for a very long time.
This is an issue that I've never seen addressed very clearly. Actually,
I'm not sure I've ever really seen it addressed at all (except in the
paper
For the record, I'm not in favor of any and all profit-driven investment
programs. I do think we need to understand better how the system works,
however. It is not clear to me (or to lots of other folks on and
off this list)
whether the "speculative versus real finance" story is logically
Have you rattled Gray
Davis' teeth Gene?
Governor's Office Governor Gray DavisState
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Underinvestment: The Energy Technology and RD Policy Challenge
Margolis, Robert M., and Daniel M. Kammen. "Underinvestment: The Energy
Technology and RD Policy Challenge." Science 285 (30 July 1999): 689-692.
This journal is
buy cheap sell dear
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Subject: [PEN-L:6812] query: economic clichs
could anyone give me some commonly-used economic clichs?
[Strange appositeness]
full article at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,419237,00.html
Greenspan - a guru but not a god
Larry Elliott
Monday January 8, 2001
The ancient Greeks believed their world was ruled by gods and goddesses
living on the summit of Mount Olympus. There
What was the ratio of expansionary to bust phase before the last
fifty years ? What is the ratio for most of the world, not just the
U.S. ? Perhaps the U.S. has figured out how to dump some of its bust
phase onto other countries, like Southeast Asia in 1998.
What is your point ? That U.S.
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Ellen Frank wrote:
Personally, I don't see that
[Isn't corporate democracy a contradiction in terms and didn't the Italians
have a name for what's happening?]
full article at http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0107-01.htm
Published on Sunday, January 7, 2001 in the Boston Globe
Our New Corporate Republic
by James K. Galbraith
WITH THE
Striking Korean workers barricade themselves to protest bank merger
December 24, 2000
Web posted at: 4:43 PM HKT (0843 GMT)
By PAUL SHIN
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Riot police on Sunday surrounded a building in
South Korea where 15,000 striking union workers barricaded themselves to
protest
U.S. Financier Soros To Stand Trial
By VERENA VON DERSCHAU= Associated Press Writer=
PARIS (AP) _ A Parisian investigating magistrate has ordered U.S. financier
George Soros and three others to stand trial for their alleged roles in a
1988 insider trading scheme, judicial sources said Friday.
Dear Website users,
Please find the following reports on our website issued at 13hr today.
Please note: to access the information you can either click on the link
below or copy and paste the address into your browser. If the new
information doesn't appear on the page, try refreshing the
. . . "Fair Trade" was merely a term of coalition building
convenience; the WTO is the ultimate social clause as it regulates the
ability of governments to regulate commerce, the currently
ultimate form of
social activity on the planet.
mbs: I can't tell who's saying what here
but
today's (12/21/00) Wall St. Journal says that economists and corporate
chiefs alike have been surprised by the "sudden" world wide slowdown in
the economy.
They should have listened to Rob Schaap
Gene Coyle
**
"Specifically, we ask whether, given commercial forecasts
[Just how many food testers are in the work farce?]
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns227049
The big crunch
TESTERS of cornflakes and potato snacks may soon be superseded by a
"crunchmeter" that uses fractal geometry to gauge their crispiness.
Developed by food scientists at the
Eugene Coyle wrote:
They should have listened to Rob Schaap
Starting when?
Doug
***
From: Rob Schaap
Subject: Re: Re: U.S.Monetary Policy
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:14:35 -0800
Evening all,
If
In any case, I have believed for some
time that we are going into a
recession. I think that people are
going to be more receptive of left
ideas. I would like to see pen-l
function as an incubator for good
economic thinking.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State
CB: What is the progressive economic solution for the recession ?
Why should large numbers of voters be interested in those
solutions ? What do radical have to cure a depression ? Some
kind of neo-Keynesianism ? What's more radical than Keynesianism
, but not Marxism ?
How does
2. Will Americans be really more receptive of left ideas in the
event of recession? If so, which kind of left ideas? Given the main
currents of Seattle like movements as well as the Nader/Green
campaign, is the likely winner -- *if* left-wing ideas gain more
currency at all -- a
I'm saying that we who disagree with respectable policy wonks, NGOs,
the AFL-CIO, as of now, do not appear to have enough power to
benefit from hypothetical receptivity to left-wing ideas in the event
of recession. In other words, the fix-it camp (wonks, NGOs, the
AFL-CIO) seems stronger
Bush Picks Alcoa Exec As Treasury Secretary
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - President-elect George W. Bush chose Alcoa
Chairman Paul O'Neill Wednesday to be his treasury secretary, saying the
executive shared his
Ali wrote:
I am presently researching Trade issues. I recall Bill
Tabb in a monthly review article mentioning that the
increase in global trade is due to inter-company
trade. Maybe my memory is not all that clear on that
but are there data and measurement sources for this.
Tadashi Nakamae has a short essay that's very gloomy over the medium term
in the latest issue of "The International Economy" which, according to my
sources, is the magazine of choice for "globalization" coneheads in
Washington DC. They have a website but the latest stuff isn't on it.
Ian
full article at:
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,413286,00.html
Time to backtrack
If the government can think the unthinkable on the tube, next it should
return Railtrack to public control
Special report: transport in Britain
Ros Coward
Tuesday December 19, 2000
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
Strictly speaking the socialists drew upon Rousseau's notion of
"perfectabilité," (which the translator, Roger D. Masters, says
means "the
capacity to make progress" in J-J Rousseau, THE SOCIAL CONTRACT AND
DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY, Lester Crocker, ed. Washington
Square
At least you knew what I was referring to, which was the point of
using the
term. I don't think it's worth spending a lot of energy arguing about the
meanings of words, since they are usually pretty arbitrary and
conventional.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JD
I think it's quite possible to simply define "democracy" as we think is
most appropriate (which isn't that different from the official rhetorical
definition, i.e., government for, by, and of the people) and then
point out
how the reality of our government doesn't live up to that
Yoshie wrote:
On this list, we've discussed the divisions of mental manual labor,
intellectuals manual laborers, "conception" "execution,"
"pleasant work" "shitwork," etc. Here's an article on post-Soviet
Russian doctors growing potatoes to survive while still trying to
practice
Yoshie and others,
Whenever you see a dangling m or l at the end of a link that's wrapped
because of margins, type it in when you paste the URL.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11939-2000Dec15.html
A Washington Post investigation into corporate drug experiments in Africa,
Asia,
Differing WTO, UNCTAD perceptions
http://www.indiaserver.com/thehindu/2000/12/14/stories/0614000i.htm for full
article
THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in his annual
overview of the multilateral trading system, has raised concerns about the
increasing recourse of
[inspiration for the AFL-CIO?]full article at:
http://www.iht.com/articles/4532.html
Unions Force Schroeder to Yield on Pension Cuts
John Schmid International Herald Tribune Saturday, December 16, 2000
German Leader's Economic Plan Dealt Setback
FRANKFURT Unions forced the government Friday to
Michael is there a link for this?
Ian
NITED NATIONS, Dec. 15
Secretary General Kofi Annan named a high-level advisory
panel of international
financial experts today and gave them five months to
come up with concrete ideas to help poor countries
from SLATE magazine:
*In case you have accidentally swallowed poison, please read this item
repeatedly.* The [Washington POST's] Lloyd Grove reports that Wednesday
night, Dick Cheney partied with Supreme Court Justices Antonin
Scalia and
Anthony M. Kennedy.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I definitely dont mean post-technological. By postindustrial, I mean
possibilities created by the industrialization of culture to replace
physical resources and cog-labour (the key elements of classical
industrial development) with human creativity.
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Don't we have too much
Hey the sentence of yours below that I riffed on doesn't say squat about
scientific method; which as you said can't be fully explicated anyway even
if there is one. The "fact" is that law is a manifestation of philosophical
discourse that merely happens to be backed up with guns. Surely you don't
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/14/00 07:39PM
Too many Socratic personality types running around will make it
hard for those with authoritarian personality disorder to tell the rest of
us how to live.
((
CB: Turns out Socrates and Plato supported the dictators/authoritarians
It just seemed like you were saying that Socratic types,
Platonists, idealists were opponents of authoritarians, a free
spirit image that a lot academic types like to project, but which
is the opposite of the facts.
CB
Well, apologies for the muddle and, to be fair, my
[full article at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-12/fish141200.shtml
Europe EU debates big cuts in fish catches
14 December 2000
European Union fisheries ministers were today debating plans to cut catch
quotas by up to 74 per cent next year to prevent stocks from being
[full article at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Americas/2000-12/calif141200.shtml
Emergency powers to prevent Californian blackouts
By Patrick Connole
14 December 2000
President Bill Clinton's administration took the rare action yesterday of
invoking emergency powers to stave
http://www.platts.com/index.html
Global Energy Business May/June 2000 Special Report
The 15th Annual Global Power Markets Conference
But even if that huge sum can be borrowed, isn't there a danger that Nimby
syndrome, which has made it nearly impossible to build new transmission
lines, will have
Pardon the incursion:
It seems to me that philosophy has several special subject
matters, such as
metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, logic, ethics, and "human nature."
No, those are just course classifications. They are not subject matters
the way the economy is a subject matter for
Well for many analytical philosophers interested in the philosophy of
science it is a type of conceptual analysis. What is a law in
science? What
is the subject matter of psychology? Mental events? What are they?
Happenings in the brain etc..etc. Nothing at all, like
phlogiston? What is a
Anyway, I think that philosophers can do everything they ever could; only,
they cannot set the bounds to knowledge or presume to dictate to scientists
what the scientists may do as far as science goes.
--jks
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Better to leave that to the lawyers in the [in]Justice dept., the DEA, the
FBI,
John Breaux apologist for cancer alley.
Ian
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Bush is interviewing John Breaux
This discussion of what is capitalism?, it seems to me, has great
relevance for any real left-green synthesis. Most of the left is
oblivious to the existence of postindustrial productive forces geared to
qualitative development, and the fact that capitalism is absolutely
incompatible
One of the
reason why economics is bombarded by so much worthless research is because
people do it simply to climb up the academic ladder rather than because
they're genuinely interested in it.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
*
Isn't it more accurate to say
Looks like they won't be heading for a democratic nation anytime soon.
Preparations for 2001 WTO Ministerial -
Strenghthened Role for WTO Staff
Qatar Rejected, Chile Proposes Santiago
The WTO Secretariat has rejected the desert kingdom of Qatar for the
2001 Ministerial
(see
D.O.P.E.
Or look at Thomas Pynchon's stuff for inspiration :-) or even William
Burroughs :-) :-)
Ian
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[Sandwichman you know this guy??]
Professor to wire computer chip into his nervous system
Professor Kevin Warwick, surrounded by his robots, holds up a computer chip
he plans to have implanted in his nervous system
December 7, 2000
Web posted at: 1755 GMT
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uh, the buzz words of the 21st century would substitute-- how to --for --we
need.
Ian
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At 12:46 PM 12/6/00 -0800, you wrote:
Second, I believe, as an empirical matter, that a
political-economic system that encourages and defends private property is
more conducive to the achievement of individual human happiness than a
system to the contrary, especially because the causes of
Let me generally answer the questions as follows. The issue, from my
perspective, is not whether property is "private" in the sense you seem to
be asking, or whether rather metaphysical notions of freedom and
consent can
exist under capitalism. Not that those are not important issues,
full piece at: http://www.commondreams.org/views/120600-104.htm
Published on Wednesday, December 6, 2000
This column is distributed by Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services
Bursting Greenspan's Bubble
by Mark Weisbrot
Alan Greenspan demonstrated his awesome powers once again on Tuesday,
sending
that BC weed shouldn't be given to islanders.
Ian
The image of the cyborg entails a double process of objectification (of
social relations) and anthropomorphic animation (of the resulting object).
The analysis of this double process is already present in Marx's
discussion
of the
http://www.americanlands.org
To: All Activists
From: Aaron Rappaport, American Lands
Date: December 4, 2000
According to the Reuters article below, it looks like efforts to salvage
something from the collapsed Climate Summit in The Hague will begin
immediately! What this means for forests
A purely acedotal story. There was a really fine coop bookstore
in Ann Arbor
when I was in grad school in the 80s. It had existed for 15+
years and had
never made a late payment. TRhen one day, the banks pulled its
credit and it
could not but books. The building was later leased by a
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